Kay HammondFilmography

The Ten Commandments

Actors: James Coburn, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo

Synopsis: Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The story relates the life of Moses, from the time he was discovered in the bullrushes as an infant by the pharoah's daughter, to his long, hard Read More

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

Actors: Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger, Luther Adler

Synopsis: Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, the real-life personality so brilliantly (albeit briefly) portrayed by Elizabeth McGovern in Ragtime (1981), is given the full biopic treatment in 20th Century Fox's The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. Since the real Mrs. Thaw served as technical advisor for the film, it isn't Read More

Call of the Blood

Actors: Kay Hammond, John Clements, John Justin, Hilton Edwards, Robert Rietty

Synopsis: Set at the dawn of the 20th century, this British melodrama follows the exploits of a female physician who goes to spend her honeymoon with her new husband in his exquisite Sicilian villa. There they meet a cynical, strange old man. The trouble begins when she is called away to help quell an Read More

Blithe Spirit

Actors: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Hugh Wakefield

Synopsis: The Noel Coward/David Lean combination which turned out such dramas as Brief Encounter and This Happy Breed sets its sights on the viewer's funny bone with Blithe Spirit. Rex Harrison plays a novelist, newly married to straight-laced Constance Cummings. Via a seance, Harrison accidentally summons Read More

Jeannie

Actors: Barbara Mullen, Wilfred Lawson, Phyllis Stanley, Michael Redgrave

Synopsis: Barbara Mullen stars as Jeannie, a spirited Scots girl who comes into an inheritance. She heads for her family castle after encountering numerous adventures on a Continental holiday. Jeannie also finds romance in the form of handsome washing machine salesman Stewart Granger, who wins out over the Read More

Two on a Doorstep

Way Down East

Actors: Rochelle Hudson, Henry Fonda, George "Slim" Summerville, Edward Trevor, Margaret Hamilton

Synopsis: This tragic melodrama is a remake of Griffith's 1920 film, Way Down East. The story centers upon a starving, impoverished gamin who lost everything after a wicked millionaire tricked her into a marriage and impregnated her. The baby doesn't survive the ordeal and the poor girl ends up sheltered by Read More

Eight Girls in a Boat

Actors: Dorothy Wilson, Douglass Montgomery, Kay Johnson, Barbara Barondess, Ferike Boros

Synopsis: Paramount's Eight Girls in a Boat was a remake of the 1932 German film of the same name. Impregnated by medical student David Perrin (Douglass Montgomery), European schoolgirl Christa Storm (Dorothy Wilson) contemplates killing herself. Wisely, she chooses instead to explain her plight to her Read More

Bypass to Happiness

Racetrack

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Kay Hammond, Lee Moran, Huntly Gordon

Synopsis: In this drama, Joe Tomasso, a slightly corrupt gambler, goes completely straight after he catches an orphan hanging around the racing stables and decides to take the lad under his wing. He then helps the kid become a jockey. Later the boys real mother appears and begs her son not to race; she also Read More

Bitter Sweet

Actors: Anna Neagle, Fernand Gravey, Esme Percy, Clifford Heatherley, Ivy St. Helier

Synopsis: The first of two film versions of Noel Coward's operetta, 1933's Bitter Sweet stars British favorite Anna Neagle and continental star Fernand Graavey (who spelled his name "Gravet" in Hollywood). The wisp of a plot finds Victorian Neagle persuading Graavey to march her to the altar. A brilliant Read More

Sleeping Car

Actors: Ivor Novello, Madeleine Carroll, Kay Hammond

Synopsis: In this romance, a wealthy woman is duped by a charming conductor. Later she ends up using him so she can remain in France. In the end, the sparring partners fall in love for real. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Umbrella

Actors: Kay Hammond, Victor Stanley, Dick Francis, Harold French

Synopsis: In this comedy, two crooks are finally freed from prison. As they prepare to leave, they receive the possessions they came in with. Among the articles is an umbrella. A cache of stolen jewels are hidden in the handle. The trouble begins when the umbrella accidentally ends up with a woman. In the Read More

Britannia of Billingsgate

Synopsis: In this musical, a middle-class cockney fishwife yearns to become a movie star. Her plans go swimmingly. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Double Harness

Actors: Ann Harding, William Powell, Henry Stephenson, Lillian Bond, George Meeker

Synopsis: Joan Colby (Ann Harding) is the unmarried older daughter in a once-wealthy family. She's always been the mature, level-headed one among the two sisters, but she is feeling the pressure to find a husband especially strongly these days, as her much more flighty and impetuous younger sister Valerie Read More

The Third String

Synopsis: A sailor masquerades as an Australian boxing champion to impress a cocktail waitress in this comedy. Naturally, the sailor's bragging ends up getting him into the ring with a real fighter. Fortunately, the barmaid's ex-boy friend understands the sailor's situation and convinces the boxer to take a Read More

Sally Bishop

Actors: Joan Barry, Harold Huth, Isabel Jeans, Kay Hammond

Synopsis: In this romance, a typist is the secret mistress of a wealthy man. After three years of illicit romance, he suddenly dumps her for the love of a wealthy heiress. The broken-hearted girl goes on with her life and falls in love with another, but when her original lover returns to beg forgiveness Read More

Nine Till Six

Synopsis: In this romance, the love lives of several London dress shop employees are chronicled. Much of the story centers upon the head dressmaker who gets into trouble by borrowing one of her own designs to attend a gala with a rich fellow and finds herself accused of stealing it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Money Means Nothing

A Night Like This

Synopsis: In this farce, a playboy falls for a nightclub dancer who is being blackmailed by the club owner over a necklace she borrowed. The playboy and an Irish cop ensure that everything turns out OK. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

Fascination

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Dorothy Bartlam, Carl Harbord, Kay Hammond, Kenneth Kove

Synopsis: The marriage between Larry and Vera Maitland (Carl Harbourd and Dorothy Bartlam) may be over before it begins when Larry falls for glamorous actress Gwenda Farrell (Madeleine Carroll). Rather than storm out of the house in high dudgeon, Vera opts for a more civilized approach. She visits Gwenda in Read More

Carnival

Actors: Joseph Schildkraut, Dorothy Bouchier, Matheson Lang

Synopsis: A love triangle forms the basis of this melodrama set during a Venetian carnival. The main couple are a famed actor and his possibly adulterous wife. During the fair, the actors do the closing scenes from Othello. At that time, the insanely jealous actor tries to choke his wife on stage. As the Read More

Out of the Blue

Synopsis: In this musical, an impoverished aristocrat's daughter tries for a singing career. She also falls in love with a radio star who is, unfortunately, in love with another. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Night in Montmartre

Actors: Horace Hodges, Heather Angel, Franklin Dyall, Hugh Williams, Kay Hammond

Synopsis: In this drama, a restaurant owner moonlights as a blackmailer to beef up his earnings. The trouble begins when he is found stabbed to death and an innocent man is charged with the crime. Fortunately, the accused's aged father is a former detective who begins working to clear his name. ~ Sandra Read More

Almost a Divorce

Actors: Sydney Howard, Nelson Keys, Kenneth Kove

Synopsis: No relation to American author Sidney Howard, bulbous Briton Sydney Howard was the star comedian in several cheaply made film farces of the 1930s. In Almost a Divorce, Howard over-imbibes at the wedding of his best friend Nelson Keys. Howard's besotted antics (and incessant repetition of his stage Read More

Abraham Lincoln

Actors: Walter Huston, Kay Hammond, Una Merkel, Jason Robards, Sr., Ian Keith

Synopsis: To date, this D.W. Griffith epic is the only talking-picture effort to encapsulate the entire life of Abraham Lincoln, from cradle to grave. The script, credited to Stephen Vincent Benet, manages to include all the familiar high points, including Lincoln's tragic romance with Ann Rutledge (Una Merkel Read More

Her Private Affair

Actors: Ann Harding, Harry Bannister, John Loder, Kay Hammond, Arthur Hoyt

Synopsis: In her second film, Broadway actress Ann Harding plays the vacationing wife of a judge who finds herself blackmailed by a notorious gigolo. Leaving her husband after a quarrel, Vera Kessler (Harding) dallies rather innocently with Arnold Hartman (Lawford Davidson). Hartman, however, engages in a Read More

Children of Chance

Actors: Elissa Landi, Mabel Poulton, John Stuart, Dorothy Minto, John Longden, Gus McNaughton

Synopsis: Innocent Binnie (Elissa Landi) happens to be the spitting image of Lia Monta (also Elissa Landi), a less-than-innocent famous actress. When Lia skeedaddles to Berlin with a cache of stolen jewels, Binnie takes her look-alike's place on stage. She falls in love with Lia's sweetheart Gordon (John Stuart Read More

The Trespasser

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt, William Holden, Henry B. Walthall

Synopsis: The Trespasser was Gloria Swanson's first all-talking picture. All talk is right. Swanson plays a humble secretary who marries the son (Robert Ames) of a domineering millionaire (William Holden--no, not that William Holden). The father-in-law bullies Swanson into giving up his son; she agrees to Read More

Without Hope

Synopsis: The Flamingo Film Company inaugurated its brief life-span with the 4-reel Without Hope. A comedy with melodramatic undertones, the film stars Harry Kendall as an adventuresome playwright. To pick up material for his latest play, Kendall poses as a waiter at a fancy restaurant. In a twinkling, he Read More